Lara Sporting Club general manager Brendon Chavasse, elaborating on the threat, said it was more a warning than a demand on its members to not vote for the Greens.

“We are not telling our members how to vote, but our community needs to understand what their vote represents and how it can directly affect our ability to financially support our community,” he said.

“Invariably an uneducated vote could well lead to the demise of our club.

“Local jobs will be at risk and community facilities could well become unviable.”

Despite the club not directly mentioning the Greens in their statement, it was circulated through an email titled ‘Greens continue to misrepresent facts surrounding EGMs’.

“Lara Sporting Club are concerned that a ban on electronic gaming machines, as proposed by the Greens, would severely impact the club’s resources to such an extent that they would be unable to continue to provide any meaningful support for their members, local sporting clubs, schools, charitable organisations and the wider community,” it read.

Though tagging itself as a not-for-profit, the Lara Sporting Club was not willing to share its audited financial reports.

It would also not make available the breakdown of where it channelled its pokies revenue.